This paper examines whether education empowers women. We exploit an exogenous variation in education induced by a … longer school year in Indonesia in 1978, which fits a fuzzy regression discontinuity design. We find education reduces the … outcome measures, we do not find evidence that education improves women's decision making authority within households, asset …

. Consequently, the process of the transition, presents an interesting reduction in gender differentiation (Davis, Van den Oever … the process, however this by no means the end of the story in improvements to issues such as gender equality. …

Gender disparities in education raise many questions for governments and civil societies. There are many factors that … contribute to the gender gap in education. In Eritrea, gender disparities persist in the enrolment rates between boys and girls … educational development in the country. It identifies and analyses various factors that cause gender inequality in education …

relations with supervisors and satisfaction with relations with coworkers. Also the connection of gender and level of education …

. In other words, ethnicity has a direct impact on girls' school enrollment but not on boys'. There exists a gender gap … among ethnic Turkish children as well as ethnic Arabic and Kurdish children. However, the gender gap among ethnic Kurdish …

labor market. Assuming that academic competition is fair and that individual talent is equally distributed by gender, we … suggest that the gender gap evident in degree scores is endogenously due to the greater effort exerted by female students. We …

whether such attitudes also lead to gender discrimination in primary education. While there is a vast literature on inter …-household gender discrimination in education, studies of discrimination between siblings is comparatively rare. This paper asks the … towards education and practices may be more complicated and less uniformly negative at lower levels of education than commonly …

Several recent empirical studies have examined the gender effects of education on economic growth or on steady … and the direction of correlation. This paper undertakes a similar study of the gender effects of education using province … level data for Turkey. The main findings indicate that female education positively and significantly affects the steady …

Education plays an important role in the economic and social development of countries. Myriad studies show that … education is one of the best ways to offer increased socioeconomic opportunities, social mobility and wages. Not only is … universal education important but more significant is the quality of the education. In an attempt to offer higher …

Education is a powerful catalyst for the change of a society and plays a crucial role in the development of a nation …. In recent years, education has been included as a key component of Human Development Index. As a result, social and … Achievement in Elementary Education across the districts of West Bengal to explore regional disparities in educational …